You are ignoring any errors that could occur in urllib2.urlopen
, if for some reason you are getting an error trying to get that page on your server, which you don't get testing locally you are effectively passing in an empty string (''
) or a page you don't expect (such as a 404 page) to BeautifulSoup
.
Which in turn makes your soup.find('table', id="datatable_main")
return None
since the document is something you don't expect.
You should either make sure you can get the page you are trying to get on your server, or handle exceptions properly.